This is the day Maria Butina became presidential.

[Blue_Adept]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Achilleaze]

1. Justice for republican traitors to America!

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charge them, try them, convict them, lock them up

[riversedge]

11. would be a better world if and when that happens.

[mobeau69]

19. Don't lock them up.

After due process, give them maximum penalty allowed by law.

[htuttle]

2. Well, well, well...

That's a helluvan interesting twitter link.

[DesertRat]

3. The comments in that twitter thread are interesting too

[Blue_Adept]

4. Yeah, as one of them said, it's like he used twitter as a diary

Spies of days of old are rolling in their graves

[dhol82]

5. Is this really real?

How come it’s been floating around for a while and nobody picked up on it?

[Blue_Adept]

6. There's so much information out there these days that it's easy for things to get lost in it

It's like how Butina appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

[dhol82]

7. So this is really a legitimate tweet from Torshin?

I don’t want to spread stuff that might be tainted.
Thanks.

[Blue_Adept]

8. The very first tweet is from his verified account

[dhol82]

9. Awesome!

Thanks.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Not quite nowhere. Here's a DU post from January + ones from March & April 2017

from January 2018:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10157012

Excerpts:

from March 2017:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/126212109

But curiously, David Keene, the former NRA president and current board member who was on the Moscow trip, insisted the meeting with the high-ranking member of the Kremlin government had nothing whatsoever to do with geopolitics.

..trip was sponsored at least in part by the organization, The Right to Bear Arms, a firearms advocacy organization founded by Russian national Maria Butina .. who now lives in Washington, D.C., and serves as a link between Russian political circles and the American capital’s conservative elite.

from April 2017 about Torshin (banker in OP tweets)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028886557

Torshin has regularly shown up at the gun lobby’s annual conventions, even engaging in target-shooting contests in the exhibit halls with Republican strategists. His assistant, Butina, is the founding chair of a Russian gun rights group, the Right to Bear Arms, which has been described as a Russian version of the NRA. While attending last year’s NRA convention in Louisville, Ky., Torshin was introduced to Donald Trump Jr. at a private dinner at a Louisville restaurant, according to three sources familiar with the encounter.

.......
“He’s sort of the conservatives’ favorite Russian,” said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who together with Rep. Tom Massie, R-Ky., had dinner with Torshin and other members of the Russian delegation to the Prayer Breakfast at a Washington restaurant

[dhol82]

25. I don't think many of the linkages we shave now were available then.

It’s interesting how vast this cabal is stretching.

[WePurrsevere]

12. The links go to a verified Twitter account so let's just say...

it's as real as Dolt45's tweets are.

As for why it's been floating around for a while and nobody picked up on it before... IDK I suppose that could be because no one thought to look before OR someone had and chose to keep quiet about it at that tim, perhaps waiting for the right time for whatever reason.

[FakeNoose]

15. It was recently translated into English and released on Twitter

Most of us can't read Russian. I'm sure the US Intelligence agencies already have this and much more. But they're not putting these translations out for us to see on Twitter.

[mountain grammy]

10. The smoking tweet,

from a bunch of twits.

[lark]

14. Whoohoo!!

Twit is too stupid to hide his conspiracy tweets, or Putin doling out tiny bit of truth to keep things in chaos here?

[B Stieg]

16. Say it loud. Say it proud! COLLUSION, COLLUSION, COLLUSION!

Conspiracy?

The worm is turning...

[Obvious85]

17. WOW!

Get this to Mueller, on 2nd thought, he is so thorough, he probably had this long ago

[Wounded Bear]

18. Well, she's better looking than Sarah Palin...

and she really can see Russia from her porch.

[Sneederbunk]

20. To be known as the NRA Babe.

[Dream Girl]

21. Why would they tweet that??? Are we sure it's not fake?

[meow2u3]

22. K&R for much-needed exposure

[karin_sj]

23. K&R

This is just unbelievable—especially the fact that it's dated far before the election.

[Scurrilous]

24. K&R

[Blue_Adept]

26. Afternoon kickeroo!